Mgr. Martin Horička, PhD.
Room: Š 403
E-mail: martin.horickauniba.sk
Martin Horicka is a historian and assistant professor in the Department of Slovak History at Comenius University in Bratislava, specializing in the political and cultural history of Czechoslovakia after World War II. From 2014 to 2019, he studied history at Comenius University, completing both his bachelor's and master's degrees. He received the Rector's Award for his master's thesis. In 2024, he completed his PhD at the university's Department of General History. His doctoral dissertation examined the foreign policy of the Third Czechoslovak Republic (1945–1948). He is the author of two books, Gottwald's Democrat: The Forgotten Story of Ján Ševčík and With the Soviet Union Forever: Czechoslovakia in Stalin's Grip. The latter received the Literary Academy Award in the nonfiction category at the 2025 Panta Rhei Awards. He has also published numerous scholarly articles and works of popular history on modern Slovak and Czechoslovak history. He has been a visiting researcher at the Faculty of History at the University of Warsaw (2026), the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague (2025), and the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences (2022–2023).